By DAVID KEYTON Associated Press OSLO, Norway (AP) — A prosecutor in Norway says a far-right extremist who killed 77 people in 2011 still is “a very dangerous man” and should not be released. Prosecutor Hulda Karlsdottir said in her closing parole hearing argument on Thursday that Anders Behring Breivik “has not shown any genuine
Continue ReadingBy VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has announced sweeping naval drills in several parts of the world this month, and claims the West is plotting “provocations” in neighboring Ukraine where the Kremlin has been accused of planning aggressive military action. Amid a buildup of some 100,000 troops near the border with Ukraine
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — Rock ‘n’ roll icon Tina Turner and her husband have reportedly bought a 70-million Swiss franc ($76 million) estate with 10 buildings, pond, stream, swimming pool and boat dock on Lake Zurich. The 82-year-old star’s husband, Erwin Bach, was quoted in daily Handelszeitung as saying the couple acquired the century-old, 24,000-square-meter (260,000
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona says it wants to move France winger Ousmane Dembélé before the close of the winter transfer window. Club official Mateu Alemany says the club has told Dembélé to find a new club after having refused to agree to a new deal. His contract expires in
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN Business) — Esta semana se logró evitar interrupciones de viajes aéreos potencialmente abismales cuando los gigantes de las telecomunicaciones hicieron un cambio de último minuto en su despliegue de la red 5G planificado ante los temores de que las nuevas torres de servicio celular pudieran interferir con un componente clave en los aviones
Continue ReadingBy Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Netflix is set to report fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday. Typically, Wall Street’s eyes would be set squarely on the streamer’s subscriber growth. But this time, there’s something new for investors and industry observers to look at: Netflix’s sales projections after it raised its prices. The company boosted subscriber fees Friday,
Continue ReadingBy Rob Frehse and Aya Elamroussi, CNN An 11-month-old girl is in critical condition after she was shot in the face Wednesday while she was with her mother in a parked car in the Bronx neighborhood of New York, police said. The shooting happened shortly before 7 p.m. when an armed man chased another man
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister expects the number of coronavirus infections in the country to keep rising for several weeks reaching hundreds of thousands of cases a day. Karl Lauterbach told German public broadcaster ZDF late Wednesday that “the wave will reach its peak roughly in mid-February.” Lauterbach warned that while hospitalization rates are
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister expects the number of coronavirus infections in the country to keep rising for several weeks reaching hundreds of thousands of cases a day. Karl Lauterbach told German public broadcaster ZDF late Wednesday that “the wave will reach its peak roughly in mid-February.” Lauterbach warned that while hospitalization rates are
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Long-haul carrier Emirates says it will resume its Boeing 777 flights to the U.S. after halting its use of the aircraft there over concerns new 5G services in America could interfere with airplane technology that measures altitude. International carriers that rely heavily on the
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez, Kate Sullivan and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden took the oath of office a year ago with the country facing challenges not seen in generations. On top of a once-in-a-century pandemic, the new President inherited an economy that had crumbled as Covid-19 cases rose and a nation so divided that his
Continue ReadingBy VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has accused the West of plotting “provocations” in Ukraine even as it blames Moscow of planning aggressive military action in the neighboring country. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova alleged Thursday that Ukrainian and Western claims of an imminent Russian attack on Ukraine were a “cover
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has signed a three billion euro ($3.4 billion) deal to buy three cutting edge submarines from Germany, the defense ministry announced. The Dakar-class diesel-electric submarines will be produced by German manufacturer Thyssenkrupp and are expected to be delivered within nine years, the ministry said Thursday. Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Long-haul carrier Emirates says it will resume its Boeing 777 flights to the U.S. after halting its use of the aircraft there over concerns new 5G services in America could interfere with airplane technology that measures altitude. International carriers that rely heavily on the
Continue Readingolivertapia Nueva York (CNN Business) — La marca M&Ms está en renovación. Los personajes de chocolate con forma antropomorfa de los dulces se han renovado y el logotipo también fue retocado. Pero el cambio más notable se ve en los seis personajes de M&Ms: zapatos nuevos. Green ha cambiado sus botas go-go por zapatillas deportivas.
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Hardy Kruger, considered one of post-war Germany’s best actors, has died at 93. His agent said Kruger died Wednesday in California, where he lived with his third wife, American-born writer Anita Park. Kruger starred in the 1957 British movie “The One That Got Away” about a captured
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has signed a three billion euro ($3.4 billion) deal to buy three cutting edge submarines from Germany, the defense ministry announced. The Dakar-class diesel-electric submarines will be produced by German manufacturer Thyssenkrupp and are expected to be delivered within nine years, the ministry said Thursday. Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — As the massive undersea Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Saturday, Tongans from around the world gazed on as their relatives livestreamed images of the billowing clouds of ash, gas and steam emerged from beneath the depths. Then darkness. The eruption severed Tonga’s single fiber-optic cable,
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN Two men were arrested in the UK cities of Birmingham and Manchester on Thursday morning as part of the investigation into last weekend’s Texas synagogue hostage standoff, Greater Manchester Police said. The men remained in custody for questioning as UK counterterrorism investigators support US authorities in probing the
Continue ReadingBy ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press At some of the world’s most sensitive spots, authorities have installed security screening devices made by a single Chinese company with deep ties to China’s military and the highest levels of the ruling Communist Party. The company, Nuctech, has been frozen out of the U.S. for years due to national
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